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On the outside, Esther Hsu looks like the proverbial second-generation immigrant success story, an Ivy League grad taking a well-earned break from her lucrative consulting career. However, she sees herself differently: almost 40, jobless, aimless, alone. She's an imposter hiding her failure from everyone, including her oldest group of friends—the Mathey Girls, named after their old Princeton dorm.

In this book, acclaimed actor Paterson Joseph opens up the process of rehearsing and preparing for the RSC's 2012 production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and, by doing so, brings a greater understanding to the play's characters; its rhetoric and the power of rhetoric in general, both on and off stage; its setting and political context and how this can be interpreted and refreshed for the 21st century.

Both fiction and non-fiction, Knowing Wonder: An Elephant Story invites you to explore the world of elephants within the context of real behavior and events connected with scientific insight into their inner lives. Know the family’s intimacy in birth and death, joy and sorrow. As Lua navigates the seasons of her life, she will challenge you to change the way you see her and the world. You will never look at elephants the same.

Enfant, il vole les ombres de ceux qu'il croise... et chacune de ces ombres lui confie un secret. Malgré lui, il entend les rêves, les espoirs et les chagrins de ceux qu'il aime. Que faire de cet étrange pouvoir... ? Quelques années plus tard, le « voleur d'ombres » est devenu étudiant en médecine... Est-il encore capable de deviner ce qui pourrait rendre heureux ses proches, comme Sophie avec laquelle il étudie la médecine, ou Luc, son meilleur ami, qui voudrait changer de vie ? Et lui, sait-il où le bonheur l'attend ?

Juan Buganvilla emerge como un símbolo de la lucha, la dignidad y la resistencia. A través de su vida, marcada por el amor, el desarraigo y el sacrificio, Juan Buganvilla se convierte en una figura emblemática de aquellos que, aun en tiempos de odio y represión, se aferran a su inocencia y sus ideales. Con una prosa poética y evocadora, Emilio González Déniz nos transporta a la España del siglo XX, donde la historia de Buganvilla se entrelaza con los destinos de una nación fracturada.

Лесник Василий Весёлкин, получает важное правительственное задание - найти древесину для авиационной фанеры. Вспомнив, что еще в детстве он слышал рассказ о некой заповедной Корабельной чаще, которую не рубят, а берегут как святыню: «в этой сосновой чаще все деревья ровные и высокие, а стоят они так часто, что, если даже дерево срубить, оно не падает, а остаётся стоять меж других, как живое». Веселкин решает отыскать это уникальное место, чтобы использовать древесину вековых сосен для нужд советской авиации.

Kimiko Halim thinks happy endings only exist in fairy tales. But her late grandmother’s will specifies settling down as a condition to inherit her yarn store, and the family’s legacy is the only thing that matters. Kim’s plan is simple: find a guy, date him until the store is hers, then gently uncouple from the poor, unsuspecting victim. But the clock is ticking, and her dates have been more frogs than princes. When Rob Carmichael, a perpetual groomsman and self-proclaimed proponent of happily-ever-afters, overhears Kim’s cynical view of love, he’s baffled.

À Paris, entre coulisses et salons, une courtisane en vogue règne sous un parfum de camélias. Quand un jeune homme sincère franchit le miroir de ce monde brillant, s’ouvre une passion qui bouscule l’étiquette, l’argent et la réputation. Chuchotements de théâtre, soupers tardifs, lettres brûlantes: un amour naît à contretemps, hanté par la morale d’une société qui ne pardonne rien. Dans un récit confié par un témoin privilégié, se dessinent le prix du désir, la dignité et la tentation d’un autre destin.

Meet Detective Inspector Zoe Finch. She's ambitious, determined, and damaged. And she's about to uncover evidence that could make her career... or get her sacked.

Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler.

العشاق الثلاثة لزكي مبارك هو رحلة أدبية تأخذنا إلى عوالم الحب العذري النقي، من خلال قصص ثلاثة من رموز العشق العربي: جميل بن معمر، وكُثيّر بن عبد الرحمن، والعباس بن الأحنف. يقدم زكي مبارك سردًا ساحرًا لحياة هؤلاء الشعراء، كاشفًا عن تجاربهم العاطفية التي نبضت بنقاء الحب وسموه. في هذا الكتاب، يغوص مبارك في أشعارهم، محللًا كيف جسدت كلماتهم أسمى معاني الحب بعيدًا عن نزعات المادة، لتتحول قصائدهم إلى رموز خالدة للعشق الصادق. العشاق الثلاثة ليس مجرد دراسة عن الحب، بل هو لوحة أدبية تعكس رهافة المشاعر العربية وتدعو القارئ للتأمل في جماليات الشعر العذري وألقه.[]p

In Liliana Colanzi’s singular collection of short stories, set in a Latin America at once real and otherworldly, human vice contaminates every second. Amid eerie near-future landscapes, in communities both ordinary and uncanny, and during the very real fallout of a nuclear disaster, Colanzi’s characters must contend with a poisoned legacy.

Alma Alt, the sheltered youngest daughter of an interfaith, interracial Jewish-Mexican couple, rarely ventures far from her home on a wealthy tree-lined street in Ottawa, where nothing ever happens. The one time she did, striking out to visit her older sister, Marnie, in Montreal, things ended in disaster as she found out that beautiful, blonde Marnie had been lying about their family’s background, trying to pass herself off as white. The unintended fallout from that betrayal leads to a devastating accident, one that claims Alma’s arm and someone’s life.

Jérôme et Alissa, cousins et adolescents, s'aiment d'un amour platonique. Ils se retrouvent régulièrement pendant leurs vacances dans une maison familiale, en Normandie. Le reste de l'année ils entretiennent leur amour par des échanges épistolaires compliqués. Jérôme et Alissa vivent un amour fait d’élan pur et de don mystique où le rêve et l’exaltation sont omniprésents. Cette relation s’épanouit dans une ferveur religieuse partagée. De fiançailles, il est question à plusieurs reprises sans jamais les concrétiser.

In seven and a half interlinked stories, Aaron Kreuter’s Rubble Children tackles Jewish belonging, settler colonialism, Zionism and anti-Zionism, love requited and unrequited, and cannabis culture, all drenched in suburban wonder and dread. Sometimes realist, sometimes not, the book revolves around Kol B'Seder, a fictional Reform synagogue in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill.

Jazz band na sala da gente é a história romanceada do avô judeu de Alexandre, Eduardinho Staut, que nos anos 30 e 40, foi músico da pequena orquestra do interior de São Paulo "Pinhal Jazz", assim como dono da funerária da cidade de Pinhal. Texto de orelha de Ronaldo Cagiano: "A obra de estreia de Alexandre Staut, tem uma linearidade, tanto da temática da narrativa quanto da linguagem, essa fluente e diáfana.

A moonshining hermit. A reluctant pilot. A $5 million plunder. Owen discovers a murdered corpse at a college-run archaeological dig in the Utah outback but when he and a Park Service pilot try to reach the sheriff for help, their plane is shot from the sky. Owen must ditch the aircraft in the Colorado River, where he is saved by a gin-brewing recluse named Relic.

More than forty million Americans claim Irish ancestry. This lively illustrated book, divided into parts exploring myths, legends, and folktales, explains for the U.S. audience the importance of storytelling in Irish culture in particular. In ancient Ireland, a good storyteller was so valued that he would be a member of the aos dána, the bards, and would be welcomed into every village because he came bearing tales.

The second and concluding volume of Noël Coward's legendary autobiography includes Future Indefinite and the unfinished Past Unconditional. With his trademark wit, Coward delivers anecdotes about his travels in South America, Hollywood encounters with an array of contemporary stars and directors, and his later theatrical successes, including the Broadway triumph of Design For Living.

From one of Spain’s most widely read and acclaimed authors, My Clavicle: And Other Massive Misalignments is a provocative and vulnerable semi-autobiographical novel rendering a memorable portrait of pain, health anxiety, and menopause.